Well actually being a soldier i have one of those xp

Is the individual I am talking to that of a biological maternal nature?

Boy, I bet he LOVES it when you try to be clever and skirt around the thing he asked you to not do. I know if I was him, that'd just make me SO HAPPY. (oh wait no it wouldn't)

If you tell people not to do something, they're going to do it. :B

IIRC, most german soldiers threw their gas masks out and used the canister to store food and fragile personal belongings :P

In WW2 anyways :P

Mhmm, and the allies tended to toss the damn things too. Not to say I dont have a canvas Mask bag somewhere haha

Haha. I remember a classic willy and joe cartoon, where they're looking at a massive trail of gas masks leading into the distance and one says something to the effect of "Oh look, the replacements have arrived."

I need to get a gas mask for when I get back into WW1 reenacting...since we use smoke bombs to represent gas attacks. :P Lot better than having to take a hit because you don't have a mask to put on. xD

haha I have alot of gas masks but none from WWI

World War I is where you'll find the swankest of gas masks.

Oh yes, nothing says swanky like having to wear something on your face you have to piss on to make it work.

You're mixing two different things. Pissing on a towel and then wrapping it around your face would sort of work against some kinds of gas. Proper gas masks were a bit nicer than that.

Not really, early masks worked exactly the way I described.

Then again, that would be the go-to solution for a mask with a bad filter (Read: All gas masks in the year 191x)

... No.
You just dont know what you're talking about do you? lol

"Please refrain from Doctor Who or Metal Gear Solid references, thank you."
"Please refrain from Doctor Who or Metal Gear Solid references, thank you."
"Please refrain from Doctor Who or Metal Gear Solid references, thank you."
"Please refrain from Doctor Who or Metal Gear Solid references, thank you."
"Please refrain from Doctor Who or Metal Gear Solid references, thank you."

Mmmph mm mmmmph! (I hope TF2 references are still OK.)

Dammit, you beat me to the TF2 reference!

Very nice Immel! Shame on you though, calling a good ol' British mask German.

Ironically, with all the gas masks in used in WW2, gas was hardly ever used in the war.

IIRC, the only confirmed uses are by the Germans in the Siege of Sevastopol on Soviet troops who were still holding out deep in the artillery bunkers, and the Japanese in China. Beyond that, there's isolated reports of British using mustard gas at Monte Cassino, and there was indeed a british cargo ship, carrying mustard gas, that exploded and showered the Naples docks with gas. So it's possible that a few shells that were shipped over eventually were used, though probably on accident (the gas shell shipments were only to be used in case the Germans used gas).

I had a feeling someone was going to chime in with their knowledge of the subject when I made my comment. Of course it was used, but not as much as people expected, I could say? I did read about how the Japanese left gas weapons in China, in some cases burring them. After the war there were reports of people unfortunately finding some of the gas weapons, or being harmed by the gasses being emitted that were left there. Anyway, interesting, "The more you know". =P

This looks like the poster to an infamous movie from the 1970s. All That and World War II, which set WWII clips to Beatles music and other stuff. Yeah, they actually went there.

I'm so tempted to disregard the request so you'll punish me later c:

Personally I've always found gasmasks scary rather then sexy.
It's partly what they protect you from, and also the visage of a soldier wearing one is quite impersonal and unsettling.